"One advantage to recruited seasoned serviceman as oppossed to school leavers is that we mitigate the risk of a guy going wibble once the ramp is lowered, not one case exists in our branch, a recognised manning problem within a certain service!"
IMHO anyone that calls into question the mental states of any fellow service person needs to have a very hard look at themselves. There is absolutly no corrolation between age, length of service and PTSD. This is becoming typical of the depths that the RN are going to to try and justify their own 'master race' existance. In 1937 the government commented that "the RN's efforts were chiefly deployed on the fight to have control of air power rather than on studying the strategic and tactical uses to which it should be put" No change there then, the RN only want Merlin because it keeps people like GW in a job. Lets face it anyone could operate from a ship, the FAA have proved it!!